Kenya: Ethnographic Empathy And The Social Context Of Rights - “Rescuing” Maasai Girls From Early Marriage

Kenya: Ethnographic Empathy And The Social Context Of Rights - “Rescuing” Maasai Girls From Early Marriage   Caroline S. Archambault, 2011   Esther is one of many young Maasai girls in Kenya “rescued” from early marriage. Her story is conventionally portrayed (trans)nationally and locally as a struggle between conservative pastoral patriarchs and the individual right of young girls to an education. I offer an ethnographic contextualization of the underlying factors giving rise to...

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